#Design Tools

Hide or show the dot grid

Miguel with a nifty tip. (Makes me curious why it’s not in the menu?)

Using the FigJam timer

“A brief introduction to the new whiteboard timer available in FigJam. Great for timed group activities, breakout sessions, and meetings. Timer is multiplayer and global for everyone in the document.”
Using the FigJam timer

FigJam / Figma Tip: Make replaceable image placeholders

“Make a placeholder PNG graphic in Figma Design for use in FigJam templates. This is great for setting up FigJam files for group activities and team meetings to help your collaborators easily place images into preset spaces.”
FigJam / Figma Tip: Make replaceable image

The five stages of an effective brainstorm

“FigJam was built as a space for teams to ideate together, so we wanted to dive a bit deeper into the earliest stage of collaboration: brainstorming. Product Marketing Manager Wayne Ng spoke to Cristen Torrey on the research team and Andrea Helmbolt on the growth marketing team to get their tips on running and facilitating an effective brainstorm.”

LottieLab

An interesting new app for creating and editing Lottie animations without After Effects. Supports importing assets from Figma.

Setting file thumbnails with FigJam

Miguel shows how to add file thumbnails from Figma to FigJam files.

Tailwind Figma Design Kit (Free Edition)

While the makers of Tailwind Figma sponsor this issue, I also wanted to mention their free design kit with basic elements like spacing, typography, and icons from the Tailwind CSS framework.

FigJam toolbar demo

Miggi from Figgi aka Professor Figma shows the FigJam toolbar.

Introduction to FigJam by Figma

A quick FigJam demo by Sebastiaan Schillebeeckx.
Introduction to FigJam by Figma

Layout FM: Designing FigJam

“This week we are joined by Jenny Wen and Kee Yen Yeo from Figma to talk about the behind-the-scenes of designing FigJam.”

User Testing with Figma and Maze

This free video lesson from the online class ​“Remote User Testing With Figma & Maze” covers an intro to Maze and setting up the Maze test prototype, so it’s a great start for everyone who wants to see if Maze & Figma are the right tools for them.
User Testing with Figma and Maze 2021 (Free Online

Coming together at Config 2021

At Config 2021, Figma announced six new ways to collaborate and bring you and your teammates together — their 2nd product FigJam, branching (currently in beta to Org accounts), a new mobile app, voice chat, higher user limits, and publishing to the Figma Community for everyone.

Introducing FigJam

FigJam is an online whiteboard made for designers to ideate and brainstorm with their extended teams. Think of it as a lightweight version of Figma that’s easier to learn and even more fun to use. It’s for defining user problems, looking for inspiration, and exploring ideas.

Figma’s next product is a multiplayer whiteboard called FigJam

Protocol on a new product: ​“FigJam is a simple tool for brainstorming, and the next step toward the company’s vision for a multiplayer internet.”

Magnetic arrows in Figma

Great tip: you can copy a magnetic arrow from FigJam to Figma, and it will keep working!

Copy-paste a variant into FigJam from Figma

Another good tip, this time from Miggi. Love how tightly the apps are integrated!

What Jenny Wen learned from this launch

Jenny led the design of FigJam and now reflects on what she learned from launching it.

Designing FigJam’s toolbar

Keeyen led the design of the toolbar and shares some of the process and design details.

Artists behind FigJam’s sticker packs

Alice Lee shows her cat café-themed sticker pack and highlights a few other artists in this thread.

Project Workflow Kit

One of the first few Community files for FigJam. ​“Keep your team aligned and in sync during a project from start to finish. By using these workshop templates you can easily facilitate kick-off workshops, stand-up’s and retro-meetings.”

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